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102 Cards in this Set
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-The Stranger
-The Plague -The Fall |
Albert Camus
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-Brave New World
-The Wanting Seed |
Aldous Huxley
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-Count of Monty Cristo
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Alexandre Dumas
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-"The Highway Man"
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Alfred Noyes
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-"Howl"
-poet |
Allen Ginsberg
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- Agnes Grey
-Tenant of Wildfel Hall -died of pulmonary tuburculosis at age 29 |
Anne Bronte
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- A Clockwork Orange
-invented own slang system |
Anthony Burgess
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- playwright
-"Ivanov" (1887) -"The Seagull" (1896) -"The Cherry Orchard" (1904) -"Uncle Vanya" (1899) -"Three Sisters" (1900) |
Anton Chekov
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-"The Crucible"
-"Death of a Salesman" |
Arthur Miller
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-Anthem
-The Fountainhead -Atlas Shrugged |
Ayn Rand
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-Grendel
-Hrothgar -Wiglef |
Beowulf
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-Dracula
-from Ireland |
Bram Stoker
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-Don Quixote
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Cervantes
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-Bleak House
-David Copperfield -A Tale of Two Cities -Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens
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-Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte (must have 1st name)
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"Rocking Horse Winner"
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D.H. Lawrence
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
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The Divine Comedy
-7 layers of purgatory |
Dante
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-The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
-Hitchhicker's Guide |
Douglas Adams
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poet & playwright
Tulips and Chimneys The Enormous Room Anthropos: or, the Future of Art Tom: A Ballet Santa Claus: A Morality |
e.e. cummings
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"The Pit and The Pendulum"
"The Cask of Amontillado" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Masque of Red Death" |
Edgar Allen Poe
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- Oresteia (trilogy of plays)
* Agamemnon * The Libation Bearers * The Eumenides |
Aeschylus
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-The Birds
-The Clouds |
Aristophanes
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-"The Zoo Story"
-"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" |
Edward Albee
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-Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
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- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- The Sun Also Rises - The Old Man and the Sea - A Farewell To Arms - To Have and Have Not |
Ernest Hemingway
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-"Anna Christie"
-"Desire Under The Elms" -"Strange Interlude" -"Mourning Becomes Electra" -"Ah, Wilderness!" -"The Iceman Cometh" |
Eugene O'Neill
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-Wise Blood
-The Violent Bear It Away |
Flannery O'Connor
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-The Great Gatsby
-This Side of Paradise -Tender is the Night |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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-Dune
*(Influential SciFi novel) |
Frank Herbert
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- "The Metamorphosis"
-"The Penal Colony" -The Trial -The Castle -Amerika |
Franz Kafka
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- The Brothers Karamazov
- Notes from the Underground - The Idiot - Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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-The Chronicles of Narnia
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C.S. Lewis
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-Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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-Mrs. Warren's Profession
-Man and Superman -Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw
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-Middlemarch
-The Mill on the Floss -Felix Holt, The Radical |
George Eliot
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-1984
-Animal Farm |
George Orwell
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-Titular character is king of land
-Befriends Enkidu after Enkidu has sex with a prostitute for a week -Tries to discover the secret to eternal life |
Epic of Gilgamesh
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- The Invisible Man
- The Time Machine - War of the Worlds |
H.G. Wells
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-Walden
-Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau
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- The Portrait of a Lady
- Turn of the Screw - Daisy Miller - The Ambassadors - The Golden Bowl - Wings of the Dove |
Henry James
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- "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
-"The Legend of Hiawatha" -"Evangeline" -"Hyperion, A Romance" -"The Village Blacksmith" |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- Moby Dick
- Billy Bud - Isle of the Cross - Redburn |
Herman Melville
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-The Iliad
-The Odyssey |
Homer
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-James Bond novels
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Ian Fleming
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-Under the Net
-A Severed Head -The Unicorn |
Iris Murdoch
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-Three rules of robotics
-"Foundation" series |
Isaac Asimov
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-Catcher in the Rye
-"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" |
J.D. Salinger
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-On The Road
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Jack Kerouac
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-"To Build a Fire"
-Call of the Wild -White Fang -Sea Wolf |
Jack London
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-Leatherstocking Tales
-The Last of the Mohicans |
James Fenimore Cooper
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-Dubliners
-Finnegan's Wake -Ulysses -A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
James Joyce
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-Sense and Sensibility
-Pride and Prejudice -Mansfield Park -Emma -Persuasion -Northanger Abbey |
Jane Austen
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-No Exit
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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- The Firm
- The Chamber - The Client - The Street Lawyer - A Painted House - The Innocent Man - Playing For Pizza |
John Grisham
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-The World According to Garp
-The Cider House Rules -A Prayer for Owen Meany |
John Irving
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-Paradise Lost
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John Milton
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-"Ode to a Nightingale"
-"Ode on a Grecian Urn" -"Lamia" -"Hyperion" -"The Eve of St. Agnes" |
John Keats
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-Of Mice and Men
-East of Eden -The Grapes of Wrath -The Pearl -The Red Pony |
John Steinbeck
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-"A Modest Proposal"
-Gulliver's Travels |
Jonathan Swift
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-Heart of Darkness
-Lord Jim |
Joseph Conrad
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-Something Happened
-Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller
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- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Around The World In Eighty Days |
Jules Verne
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-Slaughterhouse Five
-Cat's Cradle -Player Piano -Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut
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-"Let America Be America Again"
-Not Without Laughter |
Langston Hughes
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-War and Peace
-The Death of Ivan Illych -Anna Karenina -The Cossacks |
Leo Tolstoy
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-Alice in Wonderland
-The Jabberwocky -"The Hunting of the Snark" "The Jabberwocky" |
Lewis Carroll
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- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court |
Mark Twain
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-Tartuffe
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Moliére
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-Lolita
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Vladimir Nabokov
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-The Scarlet Letter
-The House of the Seven Gables |
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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-Barefoot in the Park
-The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue |
Neil Simon
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-Blithe Spirit
-Easy Virtue -This Happy Breed |
Noel Coward
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-The Gift of the Magi
-The Ransom of Red Chief -After Twenty Years -The Cop and the Anthem |
O. Henry
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-"Carnival of Animals"
-"Fleas" -"What I Know about life" -light verse |
Ogden Nash
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-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-"The Importance of Being Earnest" -"The Duchess of Padua" |
Oscar Wilde
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-"Ozymandias"
-"Ode to the West Wind" -"Prometheus Unbound" -"To A Skylark" |
Peter Bysshe Shelley
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-Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Rabelais
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-"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
-"The Road Not Taken" -"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" -"Mending Wall" |
Robert Frost
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-Treasure Island
-Kidnapped -Jekyll and Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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-The Jungle Book
-The White Man's Burden |
Rudyard Kipling
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-"More Pricks Than Kicks"
-Eleutheria -Happy Days |
Samuel Beckett
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-"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
-"Kubla Khan" -"Christabel" |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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-Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson
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-"The Lottery"
-The Haunting of Hill House -The Sundial |
Shirley Jackson
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-Arrowsmith
-It Can't Happen Here -Babbit |
Sinclair Lewis
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-Sherlock Holmes books
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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-Oedipus Rex
-Oedipus at Colonus -Antigone |
Sophocles
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-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
-The Glass Menagerie -A Streetcar Named Desire |
Tennessee Williams
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-Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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-Our Town
-The Merchant of Yonkers -The Skin of Our Teeth -The Ides of March |
Thorton Wilder
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-Shakespeare In Love
-Arcadia -Rock n' Roll -The Coast of Utopia |
Tom Stoppard
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-The Waste Land
-The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -The Hollow Men -Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
T.S. Eliot
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-The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
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-Les Miserables
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Victor Hugo
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-The Aneid
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Virgil
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-Mrs. Dalloway
-To The Lighthouse -Orlando -A Room Of One's Own |
Virginia Woolf
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-Candide
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Voltaire
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-Leaves of Grass
-"Oh Captain, My Captain" -free verse |
Walt Whitman
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-As I Lay Dying
-"A Rose For Emily" -"Barn Burning" -The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner
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-The Lord of the Flies
-Rites of Passage -"To The Ends of the Earth" trilogy |
William Golding
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-Vanity Fair
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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